From cf92d30a2d0aa9403d1a6cb8f828d3a9d5efbd75 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 12:33:10 -0700
Subject: mei: gsc: setup char driver alive in spite of firmware handshake
 failure
Git-commit: ce97126d6c1825fc7b3dd21a66a83458055bcbd7
Patch-mainline: v5.19-rc1
References: jsc#PED-1218

Setup char device in spite of firmware handshake failure.
In order to provide host access to the firmware status registers and other
information required for the manufacturing process.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220419193314.526966-4-daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com
Acked-by: Patrik Jakobsson <pjakobsson@suse.de>
---
 drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c b/drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c
index c474094645a0..c91bf440ea26 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/gsc-me.c
@@ -79,11 +79,12 @@ static int mei_gsc_probe(struct auxiliary_device *aux_dev,
 	pm_runtime_set_active(device);
 	pm_runtime_enable(device);
 
-	if (mei_start(dev)) {
-		dev_err(device, "init hw failure.\n");
-		ret = -ENODEV;
-		goto irq_err;
-	}
+	/* Continue to char device setup in spite of firmware handshake failure.
+	 * In order to provide access to the firmware status registers to the user
+	 * space via sysfs.
+	 */
+	if (mei_start(dev))
+		dev_warn(device, "init hw failure.\n");
 
 	pm_runtime_set_autosuspend_delay(device, MEI_GSC_RPM_TIMEOUT);
 	pm_runtime_use_autosuspend(device);
@@ -97,7 +98,6 @@ static int mei_gsc_probe(struct auxiliary_device *aux_dev,
 
 register_err:
 	mei_stop(dev);
-irq_err:
 	devm_free_irq(device, hw->irq, dev);
 
 err:
-- 
2.39.0